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Disparate Indiana pols agree ISTEP answers needed
June 16, 2013
Associated PressA legislative panel studying why 78,000 test-takers were frozen out of the high-stakes exam test last month plans to meet
Friday to hear from CTB/McGraw-Hill President Ellen Haley on what went wrong.
MoreITT Educational branches into charter schools
June 15, 2013
J.K. WallThe for-profit educator won approval last month to start a charter school for 11th- and 12th-graders inside one of its ITT
Technical Institutes in Indianapolis.
MoreOutside reviewer picked to study ISTEP troubles
June 10, 2013
Associated PressAn independent review of Indiana's ISTEP test results is under way one month after computer troubles disrupted test-taking
for thousands of students this spring.
MoreGoodwill to open four more dropout recovery schools
June 6, 2013
J.K. WallBut further expansion is on hold because of a state freeze on new adult-focused charter schools. Lawmakers are concerned the
schools are siphoning funds from K-12 education.
MoreState charter schools leader takes national job
June 4, 2013
IBJ StaffRuss Simnick, president of the Indiana Public Charter Schools Association since 2008, has taken a job with the Washington,
D.C.-based National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the IPCSA announced Tuesday.
MoreIndiana voucher program returns $5M to public schools
May 30, 2013
Associated PressThe Indiana Department of Education announced Wednesday that $5 million is owed the state's schools because of savings
achieved through school vouchers.
MoreOutside review sought for Indiana exam results
May 29, 2013
Associated PressIndiana's Department of Education is seeking an outside review of the ISTEP test results following a series of computer
glitches that will likely delay test results until July.
MoreIndiana 8th-graders best most nations in math, science
May 25, 2013
J.K. WallIn the same year the Legislature passed a set of sweeping reforms to improve Indiana’s public schools, Indiana’s
eighth-graders were scoring No. 7 in the world on an international math test.
MoreIndianapolis education up-and-comers are fierce competitors
May 25, 2013
J.K. WallFriends' competition for bragging rights lands both on Forbes' 30 Under 30 lists.
MoreFort Wayne schools want 3rd party to review ISTEP
May 22, 2013
Associated PressIndiana's largest school district says it won't accept results of this year's standardized testing until an independent
third party validates the scores.
MoreLilly Endowment's $3.4M grant to bring more teachers to Indy
May 22, 2013
Mason KingIndianapolis-based education reform group The Mind Trust will use the grant to help support teacher recruitment and training
programs such as Teach for America.
MoreHerff Jones acquisition to form $1B company
May 16, 2013
Mason KingDallas-based BSN Sports will join the Herff Jones portfolio of companies and continue to operate as its own branded entity.
Combined annual revenue is expected to top $1 billion.
MoreBall State: 5 revoked charter schools lose appeals
May 15, 2013
Associated PressBall State University has closed the books on its January decision to pull its sponsorship of seven academically struggling
Indiana charter schools.
MoreIndianapolis schools encounter more ISTEP glitches
May 13, 2013
Associated PressIndianapolis students trying to complete standardized tests that already have been delayed by technical issues have encountered
more problems.
MoreIndiana schools seeing more success with tax hikes
May 12, 2013
Associated PressIndiana school districts that won voters' approval last week for the majority of the tax increases they had sought to
boost school funding may be becoming more skilled at selling the public on the need for those tax hikes.
More'Pause' on Common Core leaves teachers in limbo
May 11, 2013
Associated PressLawmakers voted last month to delay full implementation of the academic standards to allow time to study the potential costs
of implementing or abandoning the standards and hold public meetings.
MoreHowe toughest test yet for reformers of troubled city schools
May 11, 2013
J.K. WallThomas Carr Howe Community High School, one of four taken over by the state Department of Education, is being remade yet again.
And this time it faces a slew of competitors in the education-reform arena.
MorePence signs Indiana voucher expansion bill
May 9, 2013
Associated PressGov. Mike Pence visited Calvary Christian School on the south side of Indianapolis on Thursday to sign the plan that will
make more children eligible for vouchers.
MoreHamilton County voters approve school referendums
May 7, 2013
IBJ StaffA $95 million expansion of Fishers and Hamilton Southeastern high schools, and a $28 million project to expand Noblesville
High School were approved by voters Tuesday.
MoreNew rules allow home-schoolers to join public school teams
May 2, 2013
Associated PressSome home-schooled students will be eligible to join sports teams at their local public schools under new rules adopted by
the Indiana High School Athletic Association.
MoreISTEP testing continues after early-week problems
May 2, 2013
Associated PressThe state Department of Education has asked schools for a second straight day to reduce the number of students taking the
test by half to avoid more problems.
MoreIndiana resumes ISTEP testing after 2 days of delays
May 1, 2013
Associated PressThe Indiana Department of Education said the administration of the ISTEP+ exams' online portion resumed Wednesday morning,
but schools are being asked to decrease their daily test load to 50 percent of normal levels until further notice.
MoreIndiana ISTEP testing to resume, but at half the test load
April 30, 2013
Associated PressRequired standardized tests for Indiana students will resume Wednesday after two days of computer glitches, but state officials
asked schools to cut their normal test loads by half to avoid more problems.
MoreSchools face ISTEP+ problems for 2nd straight day
April 30, 2013
IBJ Staff and Associated PressSchool districts trying to administer Indiana's required standardized test encountered new problems Tuesday that forced the
state to suspend testing for a second straight day. The problems brought a hailstorm of complaints.
MoreFate of new Indiana school standards unclear
April 30, 2013
Associated PressA legislative plan that would "pause" Indiana's adoption of a national set of reading and math education standards
has the backing of Republican Gov. Mike Pence, although many questions surround what that step would mean for the state's
classrooms.
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Saw the Indy Men's Chorus "Music of Gilbert & Sullivan" at the Indiana Historical Society on Sunday evening.
Temporary workers are not "tools" they are people and companies that keep large amounts of temp staff are cheating.
I miss having them around. I hope one of their stores is in the general Meridian/86th Street area. I will make good use of it.
The Fringe! Plus, the simple fact that there are so many local faves in such close proximity to each other.
I remenber, watching the toll road, being built, through South Bend, when I was 10 years old. I believe, back then that it was estimated, that the toll road, would be paid for in 20 years and then it would be free. I am now 71, what happened? Since the power is in the people, by that, I mean that, we the people are in total control of everything. I, suggest that no one ever use the toll road again, let it go broke. We the people can control the price of everything, from groceries to gas, if we would just do it. If we don't pay the asking price, the sellers will lower the price and if we wait awhile, they will lower the price to what we accept as reasonable. I would like to know why a highway like interstate 94, is so well maintained, a much better highway, than the toll road, but has no tolls. I would also like to know why, a sitting governor, with a term limit, maximum of eight years, can lease, public property, for 75 years. Even though I have transponders in both of my trucks and will not be affected by the increase, I have been and will contine to avoid using the toll road. I make many trips from northern Indiana to Chicago, every year, and I prefer the better highway, I94!